RE: Slight problem with case sensitivity on managed mounts with C VS-1.11.6

2004-07-22 Thread Hughes, Bill
From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak Sent: 22 July 2004 16:49 ..snip.. OK, the problem is with CVS - the managed mounts are working properly. CVS assumes Cygwin is/runs on a case-insensitive (file)system, which is usually the case. On managed mounts, however, the assumption fails, and CVS

RE: Slight problem with case sensitivity on managed mounts with C VS-1.11.6

2004-07-22 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Hughes, Bill Sent: 22 July 2004 17:24 From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak Sent: 22 July 2004 16:49 ..snip.. OK, the problem is with CVS - the managed mounts are working properly. CVS assumes Cygwin is/runs on a case-insensitive

Re: Slight problem with case sensitivity on managed mounts with C VS-1.11.6

2004-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 05:24:15PM +0100, Hughes, Bill wrote: Yes, the problem is with CVS, not with Cygwin. Personally, I though the first paragraph of the original post made that clear - apparently, it didn't, so I apologize. OT but possibly of interest, case-sensitivity (or otherwise) and how

Re: Slight problem with case sensitivity on managed mounts with C VS-1.11.6

2004-07-22 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Dave Korn wrote: My ${CURRENCY_UNIT}*1e-2: rather than guessing, cvs should *find out*, by creating a file in the current directory using a name that is known not to exist, try to unlink it using a shifted version of that name, and then see if it's gone or not. I *think* that would do the job,

Re: Slight problem with case sensitivity on managed mounts with C VS-1.11.6

2004-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 22 18:30, Dave Korn wrote: No it isn't. NTFS is case *preserving*; neither NTFS nor windoze are case *sensitive*. That's only half the truth, though... I am right that using the //./ notation invokes the NtCreateFile function, aren't I? I think that's why the syntax works for